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The middle of the 5th century B.C.E. yielded many changes for Argos and its territory. While the Heraion at Argos functioned primarily as a shared worship and meeting space for communities nearby in the Argive Plain, the Argive quest for expansion and power in the middle of this century altered the structure of the Heraion. [29]
The Heraion of Argos was a Pan-Hellenic sanctuary, and her office was that of great status not only in Argos but in all Greece. A sign of her prestige was the fact that the time period of the office of each Priestess was used as a time chronology in large parts of Greece. [1]
Argos has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa). It is one of the hottest places in Greece during summer. Argos has generally cold winters, although due to the local climate, some winter months may have little rainfall. The weather of Argos includes an abundant amount of sunny days throughout the year, even in the winter.
Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [13] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
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A Heraion / h ə ˈ r eɪ ˌ ɒ n / or Heraeum / h ə ˈ r iː ə m / is a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Hera Notable temples include: Heraion of Samos, the most important of the sanctuaries dedicated to Hera; Heraion of Argos, near Nafplion in Argolis; Heraion of Perachora (Hera Akraia and Hera Limenia), near Corinth; Temple of Hera ...
In ancient Greek religion, Kanathos (Greek: Κάναθος) in the Argolid was the spring at Nauplia, [1] where Hera annually renewed her virginity.There, Pausanias noted, [2] was "a spring called Kanathos where, so say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and, by so doing, becomes a maiden; it is this story which is of the secrets connected with the rites which they perform to Hera."
Inachos, the supposed son of Oceanos and Tethys, is affirmed to have been the founder of this kingdom.He married his sister Melissa, by whom he had two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus: he is supposed to be the father of Io, and therefore the Greeks are sometimes called "Inachoi" after him (see also the names of the Greeks).